Photoshop is an Extremely powerful graphics creator AND editor, it’s also used by a lot of Photographers to edit there images. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to turn a simple scenery photograph into something which looks like it’s out of Lord Of The Rings. Let’s begin.

Step 1 - Go get the photo!
Go and find your scenery photo you wish to use from Google’s image or some stock site you like(perhaps you’re a photographer and have your own). Place your image into Photo shop and then duplicate the layer, this is what we’ll be working on.

Go to: Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set the radius too 4.0 pixels.

Step 2 - Add the Effect
Go to: Edit > Fade Gaussian Blur . You can change the blending mode to what you want. It may look a little different depending on the blending option & the image you chose, I used Linear Light.

Step 3 - Admire your fantasy as it comes to life!
That’s all, it’s done! As you can see with the most basic options in photo shop you can completely change an images look and this is why it’s a photographers best friend.